The Leonardo Da Vinci Programme - Trans-National Mobility Projects

The "Mobility" action is one of the main measures of this programme and provides for financial support to projects organising trans-national training placements for young people in vocational education and training as well as projects allowing the exchange of experiences of trainers or human resources managers between European countries.

The placements and exchanges are always organised in the framework of a project. The so-called "project promoter", which has to be an organisation or institution, plans and organises the individual stays abroad for the beneficiaries. The project promoter sets up and manages the project partnership (sending organisation, host organisations, beneficiaries).

The Leonardo da Vinci Mobility measure is managed on a decentralised basis through 33 National Agencies which have been set up in every participating country. Their task is to organise the selection of the best projects on the basis of a call for proposal, to sign the contracts with the project promoters selected, to monitor the implementation of the projects and to receive and analyse the intermediate and final reports of the projects.

The demand for Leonardo da Vinci mobility has known an important increase over the years. Starting with some 37.000 beneficiaries in 2000, the number should more than double in 2006 and reach some 84.500 participants: 38.500 young persons in initial training (including apprentices), 16.000 young workers, 17.000 student placements in companies, and 13.400 trainers.